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Election Verification Project

CPSR has worked in partnership with Verified Voting Foundation in
a coalition of dozens of prominent national organizations, representing
a combined membership of over three million Americans, on an Election
Incident Reporting Project, to prevent election problems from
disenfranchising voters or changing election outcomes inappropriately.
The Project brings the experience of voting rights groups together with
the technical groups.

The system enables activists on the ground to be immediately
informed of election problems and seek prompt action; enable
journalists to be put in touch with real voters who have real problems;
and enable use of the data beyond Election Day, for reports that may be
useful, for example, for post-election litigation.

VVF established relationships with voting rights groups to build
consensus on a system that best meets the needs of the organizations
involved.

Erik Nilsson applied for, and received, a grant from the Quixote
Foundation for the Ongoing CPSR Project. CPSR helped develop the
back-end of the system to enable individuals and organizations to input
election incident reports using web-based forms and promptly deliver
the data back to participating organizations for follow up. The reports
are stored in a database for public reporting systems (redacting
personally-identifiable information where required), and archiving
incidents for later use by academic and media researchers, and the
general public. The system can be used with minor modification for
multiple elections cycles, providing a means to make the elections
process more transparent and accountable. Erik Nilsson is leading
CPSR's work. Cere Davis is the Web Architect, and Susan Evoy
is the Researcher.